2023-10-19 23:33:19
By Anne Rovan
Published yesterday at 6:23 p.m., Updated yesterday at 11:33 p.m.
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Joe Biden, US President, in March 2022, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington. ALEX WONG/Getty Images via AFP
DECRYPTION – Transatlantic partners are studying common measures to protect the industry. Some Member States have doubts.
Correspondent in Brussels
At least we have certainty about the crucial summit planned this Friday in Washington between the United States and the European Union. Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the Commission, did not take the same plane to go there. For the rest, the White House and Commission teams were still trying to find an agreement on Thursday on the most sensitive point of the meeting: cross-customs duties between the EU and the United States on steel. and aluminum. In the evening, hopes of success were dashed. “We will not have an interim arrangement,” assured an EU source. The Americans tried to impose an asymmetrical agreement according to which the Europeans would engage in tough measures while they took either delayed or reversible measures. It’s not so bad. We still have two months to find a solution.”
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